Software Distributor Administration Guide (March 2009)

4 Managing Software Depots.....................................................................................................111
4.1 Depot Management Commands and Concepts..........................................................111
4.1.1 Depot Concepts...................................................................................................111
4.1.1.1 Types of Depots...........................................................................................112
4.1.1.1.1 Directory Depot...................................................................................112
4.1.1.1.2 Tape Depot..........................................................................................112
4.1.1.2 Depot Registration......................................................................................113
4.2 Copying Software Depots...........................................................................................113
4.2.1 swcopy Features and Limitations.......................................................................113
4.2.2 Using the swcopy GUI........................................................................................113
4.2.3 Using the swcopy Command Line......................................................................120
4.2.4 Copy Tasks and Examples...................................................................................122
4.2.4.1 Simple swcopy Examples............................................................................122
4.2.4.2 Using Software Codewords and Customer IDs .........................................123
4.2.4.3 Multiple Software Products in Depots .......................................................123
4.3 Registering and Unregistering Depots (swreg) ..........................................................123
4.3.1 Register Media or Create Network Depot?.........................................................124
4.3.2 Registration and Security....................................................................................124
4.3.3 Authorization .....................................................................................................124
4.3.4 Using swreg.........................................................................................................124
4.3.5 swreg Examples...................................................................................................126
4.4 Additional Depot Management Tasks and Examples.................................................126
4.4.1 Combining Patch Depots.....................................................................................126
4.4.2 Creating a Tape Depot for Distribution..............................................................126
4.4.3 Setting Depot Attributes.....................................................................................127
4.4.4 Creating a Network Depot..................................................................................127
4.4.5 Managing Multiple Versions of HP-UX..............................................................128
4.4.6 Listing Registered Depots...................................................................................129
4.4.7 Listing the Contents of a Depot (swlist -d) ........................................................129
4.4.8 Source Depot Auditing........................................................................................130
4.4.9 Verifying a Depot (swverify -d) .........................................................................130
4.4.10 Removing Software from Depots......................................................................131
4.4.11 Removing a Depot.............................................................................................131
5 HP-UX Patching and Patch Management...................................................................................133
6 Using Jobs and the Job Browser...............................................................................................135
6.1 Introduction ................................................................................................................135
6.1.1 Starting the Job Browser......................................................................................135
6.2 Using the Job Browser ................................................................................................136
6.2.1 Job Browser Icons................................................................................................136
6.2.2 The File Menu .....................................................................................................139
6.2.2.1 Printing the Jobs List...................................................................................139
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